Summary
Players diving intoThe Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remasteredare becoming fixated on saving Emperor Uriel Septim VII. In a case of history repeating itself nearly two decades after the release of the original game,The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remasteredis once again seeing players trying, and failing, to come up with new ways to keep the central character in Tamriel’s lore from meeting his end.
Prior to the release ofThe Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrimin 2011, Uriel Septim had been featured in every game in the series, dating back to the PC launch ofThe Elder Scrolls: Arenain 1994. A stalwart protector of theprovinces of Tamriel, the emperor is thrust into danger at the very start ofOblivion: Remastered, making a retreat from assassins through a secret passage in the player character’s prison cell, with the fortunate escape route immediately endearing him even to players who had never experienced the story of the first three games.
Unfortunately, Uriel Septim is destined to die in this escape effort just after entrusting the fate of the realm to the player, though many have made desperate attempts to keep him alive through the ordeal. With therelease ofOblivion Remasteredin late April, an even newer batch of players has begun seeking out ways to save the emperor, and their attempts posted across multiple social media platforms are proving just as futile as they were in 2006. These rescue efforts include a couple of different strategies, with players both standing perfectly still with an arrow nocked and pointed at the successful assassin’s entry point and diving into the fray to take out swarms of assassins coming from the other direction.
Oblivion Remastered Players Try, and Fail, To Save the Emperor Again
Neither of these methods have proven successful, though watching players try against impossible odds is providing some entertainment. Charging forward into the fray has been producing images of massive piles of assassin bodies, as they will not stop spawning until the key event of the scene plays out. In the same vein, the bow and arrow method is ineffective because the successfulfollower of Mehrunes Dagonwon’t appear until the player gets close enough to the emperor for him to say his final words, and once he appears, players are frozen in place until the deed is done.
Of course, outside the use of mods or console commands, there is no way to avoid the emperor’s scripted death scene, and for good reason. While the player-controlled Hero of Kvatch accomplishes many feats during the course of the game, the story ofOblivionis built around thelore of Martin Septim, the emperor’s bastard son, who serves as the game’s ultimate tragic hero. That story couldn’t play out without Uriel Septim’s death, but that fact isn’t deterring players from attemptingOblivion Remastered’s most famous impossible feat.
